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Bending an object
I’m a new Cinema 4D user and I’m trying to do something which I think must be quite simple but can’t quite crack it. I have an object, say a long rectangular section (say 25m square by 250m long) how do I start with this straight object and bend it into a U shape (like a horseshoe or magnet) over a period of a few seconds in an animation?
Hope somebody can help… thanks.
Graham -
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Just add a bend deformer (objects-deformation-bend)to your object. make sure your object is positioned inside the bounding box of your bend deformer. Then animate the strenght parameter of the bend by changing the its value and Alt clicking the little box to the left of where it says strenght which will then turn red. move along your time line and change the strenght value and alt click again. This should animate a bend for you
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Many thanks Brian, I’d tried the bend deformer but now I know how to use it properly! You’ve saved me many hours of head-scratching. Cheers.
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i didn’t know if I should make a new post or not, I’m kinda wanting the same thing except, I’m wanting to bend cable or wire. I have already made an object but i’m wanting to curve and act like wire. (not growing but if i move one side the other side will snake behind, like a rope that has be tied to a pole and your moving the one end that’s not tied.
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Zach,
Your getting a little past sweep nurbs now. Animating a rope has a few options
1) rigging it with soft ik activated this gives a nice control and is the easyest for animating but will require a lot of effort to set up. Tutorial here:
https://www.c4dportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1208
2)Use hair it is a little render intensive but is super easy to set up…there is a tutorial here:
https://www.base80.com
3)For a simple animation with less detail might be PLA(point level animation)…make the rope with a sweep nurbs then key frame some points you move by hand.I think I saw a tutorial for this at the cafe too but I dont remember exactly.
Tip for making a rope texture is to use a gradiant that goes back and forth between black and white as many times as possible in the displacement layer.Make sure they angle a little bit otherwise you will get rings rather than a twist./randy
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I’m still having problems with this. The bend deformer just changes my long rectangular box into a cheese shape rather than curling the ends to produce a magnet (u) shape. What am I doing wrong?
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